Saturday, April 30, 2005
Severe storms possible today from Southeast to D.C.; April snow, rain, fog bring crashes to Colorado; Weather experts monitor flood dangers throughout Utah; Extreme weather linked to weight gain; Professor: Biblical event explains weather as we know it; Direct image of extrasolar planet is first, team says; Dust storm bedevils Iraq
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Friday, April 29, 2005
2 feet of snow buries Wyoming, Montana, closes interstate, causes bird deaths; Spring rain puts L.A. within inch of 115-year-old record; Orange Co. downburst; San Diego rain, wind; May flowers still in deep freeze; Utah flooding precursor?; Most expensive hail storm ever, images; Scientists inch closer to foretelling earthquakes; Why March tsunami smaller than December’s; Experts: Top NASA officials debate May liftoff; New data show global warming
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Thursday, April 28, 2005
WXnation Podcast, Edition 2: National Weather Service bill controversy; Tornado radar; Crazy spring snow; WXnation among NBC NewsChannel stories; Meteor shower or something else?; Bob Schneider this Saturday; WXnation Hotel Locator; WXnation report on NBC NewsChannel
WXnation Podcast, Edition 2 [mp3 recorded April 28, 2005 — 8 min. 59 sec./4.3 MB] … Inside: National Weather Service bill controversy; Tornado radar; Crazy spring snow; WXnation feature on NBC NewsChannel; Meteor shower or something else; Bob Schneider this Saturday; WXnation Hotel Locator …
WXnation Report On NBC NewsChannel: And, thanks to tech reporter and blogger Mike Wendland for the NBC NewsChannel story about this Web site. He did an excellent job of explaining what’s available here, and some of NBC’s family of stations have responded by adding us to their online “Newslinks” sections, including WFLA-TV 8, Tampa, FL; WCMH-TV 4, Columbus, OH; WSMV-TV 4,
Nashville, TN; and WJFW-TV 12, Northern Wisconsin
Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday: 1. Tampa 2. New York City 3. Los Angeles 4. Orlando 5. Boston … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
New radar in Okla. may improve tornado forecasting; Proposed NWS bill: Room for everyone?; Endless winter continues in Montana; Map shows earthquake-shaking potential in the Reno-Tahoe area; Exploding toads puzzle German scientists; Aurora Watch for Canada, Alaska; Lunar eclipse pics
New Radar In Okla. May Improve Tornado Forecasting: New radar aims to improve 75 percent false-alarm rate on tornadoes | More info from The Chickasha Express-Star … Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV was the first in the U.S. to purchase a million-watt radar, four times more powerful than many.
Room For Everyone?: That proposed National Weather Service bill story has made it onto USAToday.com: Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is pushing a bill that some say would restrict information on the National Weather Service’s Web site. As I stated earlier in this blog, I turn to the NWS first when severe weather is headed my way, and it would be a shame if, one day, NWS radar images and 7-day forecast pages were gone. It doesn’t keep me from regularly visiting the other sites: During severe weather, NWS Java loops of radar images take longer and longer to load. Even when all is loading well, I frequently visit my local NBC affiliate KXAS-TV, Wunderground, Intellicast, AccuWeather and, yes, Weather.com. Each have unique displays, such as the Wunderground Storm Tracks or Intellicast Radar Summary, which show large cells’ heights and projected movements (both of these are included in the city pages of this Web site). I believe that there’s room for everyone (including this site :) What do you think?
Other Weather News: ‘Endless winter’ continues in Montana
Sierra Earthquake Risk: California and Nevada share more than just a border. They share faults. A map unveiled by the Department of Conservation’s California Geological Survey Tuesday shows earthquake shaking potential in the Reno-Tahoe area. Full story … As always, a list of current earthquakes is in the left column of this page.
Weird News: Exploding toads puzzle German scientists
Space News:Aurora Watch for Canada, Alaska posted at SpaceWeather.com … Also, April 24th Lunar Eclipse Gallery and rainbows in the night
Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. Atlanta 2. Orlando 3. Panama City 4. Springfield, MO 5. Tampa … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Storm continues to rage over online data from National Weather Service; Late-season snow was no problem for most plants in Flint, Mich.; Alaska bracing for breakup; WXnation Hotel Locator launched Monday
Weather News: Storm continues to rage over online data from National Weather Service
Late-season snow was no problem for most plants in Flint, Michigan
Alaska bracing for breakup
Site Announcements: And finally, you may have noticed the links to the WXnation.com Hotel Locator, which launched on Monday. The site includes detailed listings, photos, and online reservations for more than 26,000 hotels and motels across the United States and Canada. The site’s logo features a picture of a hotel I stayed in earlier this month (off I-44 in Terre Haute, Ind.), and the small plane in the logo is from a picture I took of an American Airlines jet flying over Fort Worth, the home of AA. I hope you find this new feature useful!
Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. Dallas/Fort Worth 2. Austin 3. Houston 4. Detroit 5. Cleveland … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
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Monday, April 25, 2005
Tornado warnings issued in Dallas/Fort Worth area
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Spring snow surprise: Michigan suffers through second day of late snow storm; Hang in there mom and dad; Heavy snow knocks out power to thousands in NE Ohio; Wicked weather blankets TN-VA Tri-Cities with snow; Chaotic N.C. weather in early spring; Wet weekend may inch L.A. near record; Storm reports rise in populated areas; Severe weather Monday in Texas, Central Plains?
Spring snow surprises Midwest … Ohio resident: “Even people who normally don’t complain about [a long winter] are at the end of their wits.”
Michigan suffers through second day of late snow storm: By 8 p.m. Sunday, the northern Thumb region had received a foot of snow and 10 to 13 inches had fallen in Detroit’s northern suburbs, said meteorologist Greg Smith of the National Weather Service. Detroit’s high on Sunday: 35
Latest from WDIV-TV, Detroit
It was interesting to see one of my hometowns, Port Huron, Mich., featured in a couple of reports on The Weather Channel, Sunday, as they saw 8 or 9 inches of snow. Mom and dad, hang in there, it will be hot and humid before you know it!
From Cleveland, where an eastern suburb reported 14 inches of snow: Heavy snow knocks out power to thousands
Latest Cleveland news from WEWS-TV/NewsNet 5
Wicked weather blankets TN-VA Tri-Cities with snow
From North Carolina: Chaotic weather in early spring
Current snow depth map
Now, on to what’s supposed to be falling this time of year: Wet weekend may inch L.A. near record
Storm reports rise in populated areas
Severe weather is possible in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Tulsa today. Current NWS watches/warnings map
Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. Detroit 2. Cleveland 3. Dallas/Fort Worth 4. New York City 5. Los Angeles … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
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Sunday, April 24, 2005
Meteor shower scare; Winter storm slams Michigan, N. Ohio
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Saturday, April 23, 2005
Late-season snowstorm could drop 3 to 8 inches of snow in Detroit, SE Michigan; 6 to 12 inches of snow possible in Northeast Ohio; Cinci shock; Even complaints in Canada; Drive-in re-pening; NASCAR’s in Az.; Watch for rain; CapitalWeather.com: Source: bill was dead on arrival, will not gain traction; Lunar eclipse Sunday
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